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June 28, 2022
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Fear, Uncertainty, and Period Trackers

Kendra Albert, Maggie Delano, and Emma Weil

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With Kendra Albert and Maggie Delano, Upturn Policy Analyst Emma Weil co-authored this piece about digital evidence and abortion prosecutions.

TL:DR; Period trackers are not the primary form of digital evidence likely to be used in abortion prosecutions today. If tracking your period is useful to you, you don’t need to stop tracking your period, although you may choose to switch to an app that collects less data and stores it locally[.]

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